Introspection and language are the cognitive prides of humankind, but their interactions in
healthy cognition remain unclear. Episodes of mind-wandering, where personal thoughts
often go unnoticed for some time before being introspected, offer a unique opportunity to
study the role of language in introspection. In this paper, we show that inner speech
facilitates awareness of mind-wandering. In two experiments, we either interfered with verbal
working memory, via articulatory suppression (Exp. 1), or entrained it, via presentation of�…